Mraka sound
| Mraka sound | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Renaud Island , Pickwick Island , Winkle Island | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 31 ′ 40 ″ S , 65 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 5 km | |
| depth | 4.2 km | |
The Mraka Sound (English; Bulgarian залив Мрака saliw Mraka ) is an approximately rectangular bay in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula, 5 km wide and 4.2 km long in a southeast-northwest orientation . It lies between Renaud Island in the south, Pickwick Island in the north and Winkle Island in the northeast.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the historic Mraka region in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Mraka Sound in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)